Not P but DFW on Dostoevsky

[Mark Kohut]

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:29 AM Martin Dietze <mdietze at gmail.com> wrote:

> So you just read things in the "wrong" order 🙃
>
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 16:25, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I read The Possessed, much before GR was published, I, too, thought
>> Big D described the world
>> around him....
>>
>> Didn't he?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:03 AM Martin Dietze <mdietze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Fun fact: when I first read Dostoyevsky's "Demons" I was struck by its
>>> absurdity and felt myself reminded of Pynchon's novels, in particular GR.
>>>
>>> Shortly after that I took my first trip to Ukraine and had a long
>>> conversation with a relative who was about 15 years older than me and
>>> like
>>> me loved literature. I told him about my observations, and he replied:
>>> "You're wrong. There's a fundamental difference between Dostoyevsky and
>>> Pynchon. In Dostoyevsky's novels it's not at all fiction. The absurdity
>>> you
>>> find in there is not stilistic, neither humor. He simply described the
>>> world around him."
>>>
>>> Of course that guy (my relative? Dostoyevsky? both?) must have been a
>>> russophobe 😉
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > "He ascended into Heaven and sitteth upon the right hand of God."
>>> > Remembering, of course, that the left hand was used for cleaning
>>> oneself
>>> > after defecation.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:43 AM Mike Jing <
>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's Joseph Frank's
>>> > > Dostoevsky:
>>> > >
>>> > > Even if we suppose he was divine — did he know? Did he know he could
>>> have
>>> > > broken the cross with just a word? Did he know in advance that death
>>> > would
>>> > > just be temporary (because I bet I could climb up there, too, if I
>>> knew
>>> > > that an eternity of right-hand bliss lay on the other side of six
>>> hours
>>> > of
>>> > > pain)?
>>> > >
>>> > > Here he is talking about Jesus Christ. What does the word
>>> "right-hand"
>>> > mean
>>> > > in "right-hand bliss"?
>>> > > --
>>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> > >
>>> > --
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>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Martin Dietze
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>
> --
> Dr. Martin Dietze
> [https://www.martins-braindumps.de/]
>
> 1. Vorsitzender - Deutsch-Ukrainischer Kulturverein e.V.
> Голова - Німецько-Українське Товариство Культури
> [http://www.deutsch-ukrainischer-kulturverein.de/]
>
> Redakteur / Редактор - Karpaty Lviv Nachrichten
> [https://karpaty-lviv-nachrichten.com]
>